Posted on: 09:25 Sat, 24 Oct 2015



Policemen attached to the Special
Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) Ikeja are
investigating an alleged theft of
N8million from Vice Pres ident Yemi
Osinbajo’s bank account.

It was gathered that two
undergraduate students of the
Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka
identi fied as Ebuka Orumba and
Patrick Nwafor allegedly hacked into
the account of Simmons Cooper
Partner, a law firm said to belong to
Vice President Osinbajo and
allegedly stole eight million naira
(N8miilion) from it.

According to investiga tion, the
undergraduates Nwafor is a final
year 500level student of Envi
ronmental Science while Orumba is
a final year Computer Engineering
student.

It was gathered that the students
used fraudulent means to hack into
the email of the Account man ager of
the VP’s law firm, one Mr. Tunde
Irukera, and they allegedly sent a
mail to UBA PLC branch to one
Obuba Fidelia on July 2nd
instructing the bank to transfer eight
mil lion naira from Simmions
Cooper Bank account to three
different bank ac counts they opened
for the fraud.

It was further gathered that the
undergraduates allegedly connived
with a tricycle rider one Artor Kalu
to open a bank ac count with Zenith
bank account number 2086943174
where three million naira
(N3,000,000) was trans ferred to
with the false name Engineer
Asukwo Okoro.

The remaining amounts were said to
have been transferred to two other
unnamed bank accounts.

Luck however ran out on the
undergraduates when their alleged
gang member, Mr. Kalu went to the
Zenith bank account at Mushin to
withdraw the N3,000,000 but was
nabbed by detectives from SARS
following a tip off from the bank.

The police subsequent ly arrested
Kalu and fol lowing his statement,
the police arrested Orumba but
Nwafor escaped.

Following the investiga tion, the
police discovered that Kalu with the
help of others got a fake Driver’s
license which he used to open the
Zenith Bank ac count.

The police has since charged Orumba
and Kalu to court on a 5 count
charge on conspiracy, stealing and
fraud while efforts is on to arrest
Nwafor whom the others claimed to
be the master mind of the fraud.

Source: TodayNg